In the House of Representatives, a bill that would change features of the Prosecuting Attorneys Retirement Fund is eligible
for a third reading vote. In the Senate, a bill calling for a study of judges’ pensions is ready for second reading
Monday as well.

Police would be restricted in most cases from retrieving information from cell phones and similar devices for violation of
texting-while-driving laws under a measure that passed the Indiana Senate on Thursday.

The worst-of-the-worst criminal offenders will be facing more time while low-level offenders will be given intensive probation
under the new sentencing provisions included in the rewrite of the Indiana Criminal Code.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long’s legislative initiative calling for a convention to propose amendments to the U.S.
Constitution advanced out of the Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure Tuesday.

Senate Bill 347, introduced to rectify issues brought up by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals when it struck down an existing
law regulating social media use by registered sex offenders, passed the Senate Monday by a vote of 49-0.

Senate President Pro Tempore David Long’s resolution and two companion bills calling for states to gather to amend the
U.S. Constitution to limit the commerce clause and federal taxing authority will be heard before the Committee on Rules and
Legislative Procedure Tuesday.

Legislation that would create a pilot program administered by the Indiana Judicial Center to assist trial courts when preparing
and writing certain motions moved out of the House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code 11-0.

The Indiana Senate passed on second reading Tuesday legislation that will create a commission on improving the status of children
in the state. The introduced version of Senate Bill 125 was prepared by the Department of Child Services Interim Study Committee.

The description Rodney Cummings gives of Madison County makes the central Indiana area sound like a war zone. The source of
the problem is the manufacture and abuse of methamphetamine, a volatile mix of medicine and toxins that forms a highly addictive
drug.

State senators who are fighting to go to court to defend parts of Indiana’s immigration law – a law that Attorney
General Greg Zoeller concluded could not withstand constitutional scrutiny – will hear a bill Wednesday that would give
them the power to defend their measures in such cases.

Days after Gov. Mike Pence came out against expanding Medicaid, the Indiana Hospital Association has issued a report that
estimates increasing coverage could generate up to $3.4 billion in new economic activity and finance more than 30,000 jobs
in the state through 2020.

Several bills moved out of legislative committee this week, including one that would expand the definition of child seduction
to include a mental health professional engaging in certain sexual behavior with a patient between 16 and 18 years old.

Sen. Jim Merritt, R-Indianapolis, announced Wednesday that he has introduced legislation to revise the state’s education
credit law for sex offenders. He said eight months ago that he would seek to change the law after a sex offender was released
early after earning this type of credit.

The Senate Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law voted this week to move legislation that will allow an indictment or
information to be amended to include a habitual offender charge at any time before trial, as long as the amendment doesn’t
prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant.

A survey released Thursday by the Bowen Center for Public Affairs at Ball State University shows that 81 percent of residents
want job creation to be the main priority for the Indiana General Assembly in 2013. This is the third straight year that Hoosiers
said jobs are the No. 1 priority.